Detective Collection

COZY AND NOIR A private detective is on a personal errand of revenge when he makes the mistake of stopping at an abandoned diner....Arnold Knight is sure he's spotted a crime in the neighborhood through binoculars, to the annoyance of his sister and the police...Two men are stuck in an elevator and one decides to tell a scary story, props and all, to pass the time...A new warden uses a Tarot card to uncover a woman's escape from a foolproof cell... Mystery--intriguing and often treacherous--comes to life within the stories of this collection.

The description “consulting detective” was often a reference to Sherlock Holmes, but that was inadequate to tell about his unusual characteristics. He was a loner who preferred to keep to himself and kept many secrets from others, including the few friends he had. Holmes did have a constant professional relationship with Dr. Watson, and it was the faithful Watson who once said, “I had no idea that such personalities exist outside of stories.”

Natalie Spencer was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess. Like most women of futile lives, she lacked a sense of proportion, and the small and unimportant details of the service absorbed her. Such conversation as she threw at random, to right and left, was trivial and distracted. Yet, the dinner was an unimportant one. It had been given with an eye more to the menu than to the guest list, which was characteristic of Natalie's mental processes.

12 nouvelles enquêtes de Sherlock Holmes : "Un scandale en Bohême", "La disparition de Lady Frances Carfax", "La ligue des rouquins", "Le rituel des Musgrave", "Le pouce de l'ingénieur", "Flamme d'argent", "Le gentilhomme célibataire", "Le diadème de béryls", "La bande mouchetée", "Une affaire d'identité", "Les Hêtres d'or", "L'escarboucle bleue".

Former Sumo Wrestler Bigu Edee turned private detective is hired by the Japanese mob to track down high end club hostess Saya. But as Bigu Edee digs deeper into Saya's disappearance he realizes that he is being asked to do much more than simply locate Saya. Saya's Run and many other stories make up this wonderful little collection.

The Blue Carbuncle is very different from all the other stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, because there is no client here. Sherlock Holmes accidentally stumbles upon a hat and a goose - and there - he's suddenly in the middle of a mind-blowing mystery!

Rye Gannon, a private investigator hanging her shingle in Denver, Colorado, discovers she has a talent for sensing magic. The Harpocrates Society, a secret organization, hires her to use that talent to find and secure magical items, keeping them from endangering the innocent. These never before published tales of an Empress’s Opal, a lucky coin, a miner’s pick, a necklace of human teeth, and a love locket, all tell the beginning of Rye Gannon’s investigative adventures in this new Urban Fantasy Mystery series.

A Mail Order Bride for the Rancher Isabelle Lawton is ready for adventure. After a life of comfort, taken care of by her aunt and uncle after the deaths of her own parents, Isabelle is sought after by the most eligible bachelor in town, the mayor’s son. Unfortunately, she isn’t interested. What can she do to change her fate without angering the mayor and half the town? When Jeremiah Connelly’s beloved father dies, he expects he has inherited the ranch and is next in line for this fate. This proves to be true—with one stipulation. Jeremiah has to get married within three months of ...

El señor Cyril Overton, capitán de equipo de rugby de la Universidad de Cambridge, se acerca a Baker Street a pedir ayuda por la desaparición de Godfrey Staunton, un deportista esencial en su equipo. Overton informa que en la noche en que estaban en el hotel, Godfrey recibió una carta de un hombre barbudo, la carta lo dejó impresionado, y después de eso, Godfrey se fue del hotel con el desconocido.

Three Compelling Sherlock Holmes Mysteries In One Book. Narrated by the celebrity actor P.J. Ochlan who has also won numerous voice audio awards. Story One: The Hex of a Gypsy Woman. He raised his disheveled head from his hands. The face was that of my friend, but the expression it bore was unrecognizable. He was indeed out of countenance. "All that I have seen and all that I know, dear fellow, for it to come to this. The great Sherlock Holmes undone by a gypsy woman."

A desaparición de una importante carta de un monarca europeo está a punto de tener consecuencias imprevisibles, cuando Lord Bellinger, dos veces presidente del Consejo de Gran Bretaña, y el muy ilustre Trelawney Hope visitan a Holmes en Baker Street.

Enjoy three best-selling hard boiled crime novels starring Detective Alex Landon by Gavin Reese. This collection includes Room Number Three, The Debt Collectors, and The Misery Merchant.

When Grace Taylor inherits a derelict manor house with over a hundred rooms, two courtyards and numerous cellars, she also inherits a series of mysteries which need to be unravelled. Fortunately the discoveries she makes all go some way to helping her raise money to maintain the crumbling 15th century Pendlehurst Manor.

A collection of 12 mystery stories set at Claresby Manor. Clues to the whereabouts of treasure lost since the time of Oliver Cromwell, the death of a famous artist, and the disappearance of a valuable work of art are all investigated by the amiable Rupert Latimer. An intriguing collection of English mystery stories with Rupert and Laura Latimer. Written and narrated by Daphne Coleridge.

Das erstaunlichste Abenteuer des Meisterdetektivs Sherlock Holmes hat eigentlich nicht Conan Doyle erfunden: es besteht vielmehr darin, daß diese Phantasiegestalt zu eigenem Leben erwacht ist und eine Existenz erlangt hat, an die Ungezählte felsenfest glaubten und glauben. Als der Detektiv 1887 erstmals in einer längeren Geschichte auftauchte, konnte niemand ahnen, welches glorreiche Schicksal ihm beschieden war...

Das erstaunlichste Abenteuer des Meisterdetektivs Sherlock Holmes hat eigentlich nicht Conan Doyle erfunden: es besteht vielmehr darin, daß diese Phantasiegestalt zu eigenem Leben erwacht ist und eine Existenz erlangt hat, an die Ungezählte felsenfest glaubten und glauben. Als der Detektiv 1887 erstmals in einer längeren Geschichte auftauchte, konnte niemand ahnen, welches glorreiche Schicksal ihm beschieden war...

Simply Media presents Agatha Christie 4 Short Story Poirot Collection, Set 6: The Case of the Missing Will, The Submarine Plans, The Adventure of the Clapham Cook, The Lost Mine.

La grippe P4n8 est finalement beaucoup plus virulente que toutes celles que l'humanité a connues jusqu'à maintenant. Et les alertes répétées à la pandémie depuis la H1N1 ont fortement entamé nos défenses et notre pharmacopée. Tout ceci est inquiétant... pour tout le monde.

Three compelling Sherlock Holmes Mysteries in one book narrated by Mark Deakins. Set in the late 19th century, no fictional character is more renowned for his powers of thought and observation than Sherlock Holmes.

Holmes es contratado por Lady Eva Blackwell para recuperar unas cartas comprometedoras de un chantajista: Charles Augustus Milverton, una persona que provoca más repulsión a Holmes que cualquiera de los asesinos de su larga carrera.... Holmes decide que recuperará las cartas de una forma u otra.